Friday, 22 January 2016

Book Review- ‘The Bestseller She Wrote’ by Ravi Subramanian

LOVE,
BETRAYAL, REDEMPTION!

Brief about the Book

In today’s corporate and publishing world, The Best-seller She Wrote is
the story of an established and famous writer-banker Aditya Kapoor and how he
meets Shreya Kaushik, a final year IIM student. The story is all about the love
story between the two leading character’s to a big smash of Aditya’s personal
and professional relations.

The story of a banker-cum-author written by a banker-cum-author shows
light on the below arguments…

Can one person love two people at a given point in time? Can one
wisely make a choice between blind passion and ambition? Is it possible to
trust someone again after betrayal?

Beauty of the Book

Aditya Kapoor is a
banker turned author. He is a gem of a person and is living a balanced yet a
starry personal and a professional life. Anything and everything he touches
turns into gold. He has everything a man can dream of.

Shreya
Kaushik is a student with who is bold, young and ambitious. Young, beautiful
and reckless, Shreya speaks her mind and obsessively chases after what she
wants. And what she wants is to be a best-selling author.She is instantly expressive about the ramblings of her mind and loves
to chase her dreams. Currently she wants to be a best-selling author.
She is one of the top authors but now she wants to be the one.

The book is easy-to-read. The first half of the story seemed a little
slow and clichéd to me. Married guy having an affair with a younger girl who
takes helps from him for a project and the wife finds out… something predictable.
But the beauty is that the pace of the story changes after this.

Until then it took me almost 4 days, but the last 170 pages I finished
in a single seating as the story had become exciting and the fun of reading a suspense
novel was back- the genre the writer is great at and is famous for.

I really liked the way the other supporting characters Aditya, Maya
and Shreya are sketched as they play important roles in the story and take it
forward. The feeling for Maya, hating Shreya while admiring her guts and feeling
both love and hate for Aditya is described very well.

You keep wondering throughout this time- Could Shreya’s selfishness
actually lead her to take such deteriorating steps? Is Diana the culprit? Is
there a different side to Sunaina?

Critics

I was a little disappointed the way story is dragged.

Inadequate description of the protagonists shades of grey. I felt it was
probably to us.

Aditya’s wife Maya is central to the story and yet, we
don’t see what drives her. I feel the relationship with her husband before he
meets Shreya could have been better explained. The author gives us only get a
glimpse of it as if to explain that he had a happy married life and no real
reasons to stray

My Rating: 3/5

Read the book if you like reading romance mixed with some suspense. The
book provides some real insights to the Media business of today, the way
it works, the way stardom hits the potential and ultimately how fame kills you.